Trump To Meet North Korean Leader In Vietnam OverDe-Nuclearization

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has announced holding the second summit talks with North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un in mid-February on the issue of de-nuclearization. Trump suggested Vietnam as the venue of the proposed meeting.

The report of the second summit is coming on the heels of the mounting expectations that the two leaders will soon hold their next summit to resume the stalled denuclearization talks. They first met in Singapore in June last year.

North Korea is said to be reviewing the U.S. proposal and has yet to give a formal response, a news report by Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun said, citing officials familiar with the matter.

The Strait Times also reported earlier that Vietnam and Thailand are on the “shortlist” for the second Trump-Kim meeting and that both countries are willing to host the event, citing unidentified sources.

Both have diplomatic ties with Pyongyang and Washington, and have organised international events like APEC, the report said.

Pyongyang and Washington have been locked in a stalemate over how to carry out the agreements they reached in their first-ever summit, at which Kim promised to work toward complete denuclearization in exchange for security guarantees from the United States.